Life Magazine – January 22, 1914 (# 1630) – Native American Life

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Cover : Native American man working on high-minded things at his desk while dreaming of riding a horse across the plains on the war path in years gone by, “The Descent of Man,” art by Power O’Malley.

– Full page color Stevens-Duryea car ad with beautiful art by William Harnden Foster of people in open car looking at ducks swimming in canal near road.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (And for Art’s Sake), Chester I. Garde (Speeches we never made), Raeburn Van Buren (Studies in Zoology … busts of various people).
– Two page centerspread art by William L. Jacobs, “I have other aspirations for my son”, mother speaking snootily to her son’s girlfriend.
– Some current events include : Annual automobile show (car show), Henry Ford, Detroit, Comparisons with Steel Workers and Andrew Carnegie (where he paid his captains enough that they could even afford divorce), New Eugenic Marriage Law from Wisconsin.
– Regarding profit sharing for auto workers and Henry Ford, “It would seem as if the prospect of being the richest man in the world had terrified Henry and stirred him to run to cover while there was still hope.”
– Full page color Gordon Dry Gin ad.
– Full page color Pall Mall cigarettes ad with National Monument 1, Sherman Statue in New York.
– Much more.